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So I have a player on my #Minetest server that is reportedly stuck in a dead state with no option to respawn. Is there a way to manually force a respawn for them?
#Luanti
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Are both the server and the client on a recent Luanti version? If so I would have expected this bug to be fixed.

There is a Lua API function called player:respawn(), but it is not directly accessible via a chatcommand. Something like //lua core.get_player_by_name"<playername>":respawn() should work if you have WorldEdit installed and they are online. /killme and /hp are also worth a shot as Dirk pointed out.



religion: Mormonism

Reading through the "Light and Truth Letter" a totally-not-written-by-the-church response to the infamous CES Letter that's been plaguing Mormonism for years now.

It's amazing* how they seem to have managed to not seriously engage with a single one of the issues I have with the church.

#ExMormon #NotACult #CESLetter

* not really

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religion: Mormonism

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Okay, I got my #WEARINGEUL #Enki ink flowing nicely in my #LAMY Safari. It just needed a tiny drop of dish soap applied with a toothpick to the cartridge converter. It's still a really light colour, but I kind of expected that going in.
#FountainPens
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Let's see how this works with the dish soap trick. I actually think it looks pretty nice.

I think it's working nicely. It's still pretty light but I think I like it.


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The Enki ink in action. Am I doing something wrong? #FountainPens
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@Jonathan Lamothe Heard back from the place we got it from (in record time, too). Apparently it works better in a pen that lays down more ink. I have a replacement cap for my TWSBI Diamond 580 on the way, so I'll give it another shot when it arrives.
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This is Wearingeul Enki in a Lamy Safari medium nib.

It's certainly not the darkest colour and it doesn't seem to travel down the feed very well but it is a beautiful colour.

Probably not one I'd use as a daily driver.

Here it is in my dip pen instead [darker colour with some feathering]

I thin I'm having some toruble getting it to run through the feed.

When it does flow, it looksnice though. That said, I find I need to apply more pressure to the pen than I am accustomed to using.

Probably not a daily driver but looks nice anyway.



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So, my local-ish pen shop has a collection of these Korean inks (Wearingeul) that I've not seen before. Just bought a bottle of Enki and can't wait to get it home to play with it.
#FountainPens

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.../inhales/ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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ph, griping

So, the Wal-Mart pharmacy has an app that tells you when your prescriptions are due for refilling. Pretty convenient right? Problem is that it's consistently wrong.

Guess I've got to go home and do a physical inventory of my drugs now.


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So much of my job is this over and over again on a loop:

"So what do you think we should do in order to responsibly build the Torment Nexus?"

"You can't. It's a Torment Nexus. Stop it."

"But the Torment Nexus is inevitable!"

"It's not. You could just not do it. You could stop right now."

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"You have been found guilty of murder."

"But, judge, he would eventually have died anyway."

"..."



ph

Well, I guess I have a cardiologist now.

That was not something I was expecting to be a thing this morning.

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I want a "programmer's spellcheck" inside #emacs that gives me warnings when a token in a buffer is unique and a Levenshtein distance of one or two from other tokens in the buffer.

I think that would be decent typo detection.

#idea

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#teeline question:

The word "defund" is tricky, as the way I would expect to write it in teeline would be the same as "defend". I know you can sinetines use a vowel indicator to disambiguate in such circumstances, but the indicators for U and E are identical, aren't they?

I'm not sure this is a case where context would necessarily clear it up either.

Thoughts?




So, while I've always loved the idea of #chess, I've also always been spectacularly bad at it. Can anyone recommend any books or other resources that might help? I had an eBook (or was it a PDF?) on tactics once upon a time, but I don't know what happened to it.

I know that an important key is practice, but the problem is that when I lose, I don't know why I lost, so it's difficult to learn from the experience.

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@conniptions I believe it’s lichess.org.

Building on this: learn to analyse your games using an engine. Only play 5-10 games per day, but analyse each one. At first, look through the game without the engine, try to observe the flow of the game. Try to see if you got outplayed positionally, or you missed a tactic, hung a piece, etc.

Then analyse with the engine. Don’t focus too much on absolute swings of the evaluation, but more on trends.

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@teotwaki Doh, of course yes, apologies, was v tired when I posted.

Agreed in re usefulness of using engine for analysis (and importance of analysing games) once there's a grasp of the basic value of material, basic tactics and so on.

Not yet mentioned - the usefulness of puzzles: simpler puzzles help you drill basic patterns and tactics - it's one thing to know what a fork is, but another thing to look at a position and quickly spot an available fork. Lichess puzzles v good for this.


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Thoughts on Racism and book bans
One of the things I hear about in reference to book bans re: racism is making white kids feel uncomfortable.
I dunno, but... I'm supposed to be uncomfortable with racism. I don't ever want to be comfy with racism.
Being a decent person requires I'm not comfy with things like racism. If racism doesn't make me feel uncomfortable, something has gone wrong with my moral compass and serious self reflection and self improvement would be urgently necessary. 🤷‍♀️

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Tip for the non-ADHD folks who have friend-groups containing large numbers of ADHD folks:

If your feelings are hurt because you feel you've been talked over or ignored or something like that, you need to *tell us*.

There are often things we do unknowingly that can make a person feel unheard or disrespected. We wish it was different. We try to make it different (we're almost all trying to learn not to interrupt), but frequently we depend on being made aware that there is a problem.

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I think a general rule of thumb for maintaining positive relationships with ADHD people is that if you have a problem with something we do, you need to be direct because the chances that we are not aware that we're doing the thing or we are not aware that the thing is affecting you are pretty high.

We work really hard at being aware of ourselves and the people around us, but it is *work*. When we're just relaxing and having fun, we may especially be likely to not notice.

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Not noticing and not caring are not the same thing, especially when your attention is an unruly little bastard that does what it wants.


rant about lies and masking

Some people's capacity to just straight-up lie to your face without skipping a beat astonishes me.

Take this conversation between Katy and an unnamed family member:

F: I need you to drive me to the clinic (because I've caught the cough that's been making the rounds in my household for weeks now).
K: Okay, but we can't afford to get sick.
F: It's okay, I'll wear a mask the whole time.
K: Okay.
F: Afterwards, we can go out to eat.
K: How are we going to eat while wearing masks?
F: It's okay, I'm not contagious.

(╯° □°) ╯︵ ┻━┻

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How much does the aurora borealis weigh?
It's pretty light.

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The reason so many firms push so hard to get you to use their phone apps rather than their websites is that the depth of invasive personal data they can gather via the apps is usually enormous in comparison.

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Ever had a restaurant deny you the discount they offer repeat customers because it's only available via their spyware app or via a dodgy QR code?

It's a good way to destroy your customer base.

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@Npars01
I don’t have apps for any of the places I frequently custom. It’s ridiculous. Show up this morning coffee shop so frequently I benefit from discounts just give me.


cult brainwashing (trigger warning)

I found some of my old notes from church. God, I really drank the Kool-Aid, didn't I?

Here's a sample:

When I negotiate my standards, I cheat myself of the blessings the Lord wants to give me.


🤮🤮🤮

"The blessings he wants to give me?" Isn't he supposed to be an omnipotent being? I had no idea I was so powerful that I could tie his hands like that.

#ExMormon #apostake #NotACult

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cult brainwashing (trigger warning)

I also love how I was able to take down an idea, and then immediately contradict myself with the next one, e.g.:

- Heavenly Father did not put me here to fail.
- A failure is nothing more than an opportunity to learn.


This is the definition of doublethink.


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Finally. my bills are washed, laundry is paid, clothes are baking and dinner is in the dryer. i've got this!

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Katy bought a bread slicer, so obviously I had to make a loaf of #sourdough #today to test it out.

Why does it have to take so long to cool?


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get in, loser

we’re poisoning chatbots

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My favorite minigame in which I tell an LLM it's wrong and feed it a fake "correct answer" - to which it says "thanks! I'll remember that for everyone else in the future." Totally secure, totally sound.


Trying out #Friendica's #Bluesky bridge. If you've been followed there by @jlamothe.bsky.social, that's me.

Let's see if this post actually shows up there.

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For sure, I’d rather keep following you here. I just wanted to confirm your bridge is working but wasn’t sure if I was doing something wrong or your setup is somehow incomplete 🤷
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@ilyess It looks like there's a bit of lag in the bridge, but I guess that's to be expected.